Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs,… — Katherine Howe Copy Share Image
My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
I'm the type of bloke who gets a flatpack cabinet from Ikea, puts it together without reading the instructions, then gets the… — John Bishop Copy Share Image
Adding throws or blankets that have great texture over the back of a sofa adds some interesting personality really quickly and will… — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image
It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings… — Genevieve Gorder Copy Share Image
I made a sofa that is constantly being updated the more people sit on it, or sit through it, or don't sit… — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly… — Marc Newson Copy Share Image
History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
In my experience, Cupid's arrows rarely strike two people with the same definition of cleanliness. One partner usually feels like he or… — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
If you are on Craigslist to get a sofa, and you see one for free. You think there’s something tragically wrong with… — Jessica Hische Copy Share Image
I love my dad. He used to walk around the whole neighborhood and collect old furniture and fix it, like MacGyver with… — Felipe Esparza Copy Share Image
It is very important that you should choose the person you will marry and stay with that person. There are many people… — Miriam Copy Share Image
“The second prong in my revised Trinity is IKEA, the Swedish home store monolith. If you're unfamiliar, they carry every single thing… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
Technology is a huge part of our lives and it's only a matter of time that it becomes a part of every… — Sussanne Khan Copy Share Image
Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics… — Tatyana Tolstaya Copy Share Image
“George was, in truth, one of the sort who evidently have made some mistake in coming into this world at all, as… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It was fairly obvious to anyone who studied the situation that China was dumping bedroom furniture in the U.S. to the detriment… — Howard Coble Copy Share Image
My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself,… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
I like living sparsely. In the main room, there's no furniture - no tables, no chairs, no coffee table - not even… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with… — Toni Tennille Copy Share Image
I don't think you should follow trends for your home; things for your home are less about fashion and more about investment.… — Bobby Berk Copy Share Image
There are people I've worked with who have never understood how fashion works. They keep saying they love fashion, yet they've never… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction… — Gae Aulenti Copy Share Image
“We spoke about furniture in theory for eight years,” recalled Powell. “We spent a lot of time asking ourselves, ‘What is the… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
“the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. if all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine… — benjamin franklin Copy Share Image
It's trust issue more than anything. I mean, whats stopping them from teaming up, dressing up like a really tall person in… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman… — Candice Olson Copy Share Image
Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
Furnishing a home is no different than going into the studio and making music. You want to make sure you've pared down… — Adam Levine Copy Share Image
And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
